Robert Morris

America is a country full of entrepreneurs, but few know the historical basis for their existence. The country's history is presented as a narrative where slave holding farmers of the South and the hard scrapple fishermen and sailors of New England somehow created a nation that utilizes banks, credit, manufacturing, and commerce to become the richest nation on earth. This makes no sense, so to answer the question they add in Hamilton, who was a political appointee for five years. Oddly, Hamilton was not an entrepreneur. He was a lawyer and soldier. The true answer lies in understanding the 30 year career of Robert Morris, who signed the three founding documents of America. He was an entrepreneur, smuggler, privateer owner, founder of the first bank, and Senator who championed the free enterprise system against the Slave Power and street mob 'justice.' Oh, and he financed the Revolution. Why don't people know this? Late in life, Morris overextended himself, went bankrupt, and then his political party lost the election of 1800. The people who defeated him were not interested in giving him credit for his work, as they endeavored to grab the glory, and nation, for themselves.